Sugar dispenser



Oct. 31, 1950 A. HANSEN SUGAR DISPENSER Filed Aug.. 16, 1946 INVENTOR. A LFRED HA NSE/V ATTQRNE'K Patented Oct. 31, 1250 .STLFIUNITED STATES PATENT SUGAR DISPENSER 1 Alfred Hansen, Brooklyn, N. Y. Application August 16, 1946, Serial'No. 691,137

This invention relates to dispensing devices and has particular reference to devices of this kind. which dispense granular materialsfi I Primarily the materials to bejdispensed with the instant device are those such as used in restaurants, the home, and such places, these materials including especially, for example, sugar, salt, and the like; and an important object of the invention is to provide a dispensing means of this kind which regulates the discharge of the material in such manner as to render the flow thereof uniform or even at and past the orifice.

Since the wall of the container for the material being dispensed is preferably transparent, another object is to provide a device having therein material control means of pleasing appearance.

A further object is to provide a dispensing device in which the movements of the material being dispensed may be observed, these movements being through apertures, at times in substantially opposite direction.

Since materials such as those herein specified frequently become congealed or moistened, so as also to afterwards form masses or lumps, a still further object is to provide a device of this kind which will break up the lumps and cause the material to flow in its proper granular form.

A feature of the invention is a tube of wire mesh, the openings of which, adverting to the aforesaid reference to materials, may be arranged small or large according to requirements.

Another feature resides in utilization of a closure cap for the container, this cap being shown as conventional in structure, with a single opening which cooperates with the openings of the wire mesh element.

Yet another object is to construct the device in such manner as to render it economical of manufacture, practical in operation, and such as to retain its efiiciency for a relatively long period of time.

With the above indicated objects and advantages in view, as well as others which will hereinafter appear, the embodiment selected for disclosure is herein fully described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which:

Fig. 1 is a vertical central section of a device constructed in accordance with the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. l, but showing the device in inverted, working position; and

Fig. 3 is a top plan view with the cap removed.

Shown in said drawing is a tubular body of 1 Claim. (01. 222 1s9) glass or transparent material, including a base ll.

The body It is open at the top and has thereat a helical head or thread I2 which cooperates with a mating thread 13 on-aclosure cap 'l'd' sai dcap having also a bead l5 cooperating in engaged relation with a stop bead [6 at said top.

Said cap, having a discharge opening 20 is. also provided with an annular seat 2|, which in the closed position of the device, finds a mating; seat 22 on the top of the body [0.

Axially disposed within the body Ill and re-- movable therefrom, as for cleaning or other pur-- pose, is a mesh unit, in this case of suitable wire, the elements of which include transverse ring; members 25, substantially alike and linear longitudinal members 26, also substantially alike. The members 25, 2B are woven together, alternating in over and under crossings, and these members are brazed or metallically attached at the crossings.

A lowermost member 25, with the attached terminals of members 26, engages the bottom I I, and in the instant case a top member 25, in the assembled position is shown flush with the face 22. On some occasions however the tabular mesh unit may be longer than shown.

Both the diameter of the opening 20 and that of the unit 2526 are merely selected in the instant showing, and these diameters, as well as; the meshes defined by the crossed wires 25, 26, may be of relative dimensions differentfrom, those illustrated.

Also metalically attached to a selected mem-. ber 25, being the third member from the top, Fig. 1, are the ends 30, 3| of a spring wire 32', formin a loop, the lower end of which passes, freely through meshes of the tube 25-26, thereby rendering said loop suitably springable.

A loop 42, at right angles to the loop 32 is similar to the loop first described, the loop 42 having ends 40, 4| metalically attached to the aforesaid third member 25, and the lowermost part of the loop 42, being also free within the related meshes.

When the unit 25, 26, with its loops is removed from the housing ID, the aforesaid loops spring outwardly, and on being again inserted, by resiliently and compressibly fitting within the walls ID, suitably contract, and form a very firmly and strongly gripping unit, to hold the internal organization snugly in place.

The material 44 being dispensed herein is of the sugar type, and this material, moving to and past the opening 20, is caused to flow as herein 3 described, it being noted that some of this flow, as in Fig. 2, is partly outwardly through the aforesaid meshes, and in part inwardly there- 'through, as further described hereinafter.

In the instant case material 44 is partly repre- 'sented in inactive condition 45. With the progressive change of the face material 44 which takes place by gravitation from the bottom 25 in Fig. 1 toward cap M in Fig. 2, the lumps 45 also gravitate therewith to become in part broken; up and appropriatelydispensed, as aforesaid, this being as in a stream 46.

As shown in said Fig. 2, material 44 moves from the top upper left side inwardly and to the :right The device may efieotively be,

Variations may be resorted to within the scope V low convex over for the open top having a r-" duced opening, a hollow cylindrical wire mesh member extending from the bottom of said body up to within a short distance of said cover and being spaced within the side walls of said cylindrical body and from said cover, and resilient arcuate retaining wire members attached to said cylindrical wire mesh member bowed out to the interior surfaces of the side walls of said cylindrical' body, and holding said wire mesh member in-positionby friction, the open top of the cylindrical body having substantially the same internal diameter as the body throughout its length.

ALFRED HANSEN.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

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